Channel - Mergers & Acquisitions

CBS-CNET: Full Coverage - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 15 May 2008 10:58 PM PST

As has already been widely reported, CBS (NYSE: CBS) is acquiring CNET (NSDQ: CNET) for $1.8 billion cash, marking the big acquisition we had anticipated and enabling CNET to avoid…

Virgin Mobile USA Confirms Early Talks With SK Telecom - 2 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 14 May 2008 07:29 AM PST

Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) confirmed this morning that it is having preliminary discussions with SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) to explore possible strategic opportunities. We were first last week to…

TomTom’s Proposed Tele Atlas Purchase Gets EU Clearance - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 14 May 2008 04:56 AM PST

Car navigation device maker TomTom’s proposed 2.9 billion euro ($4.5 billion) purchase of digital- mapping firm Tele Atlas has received the all clear from the EU. Bloomberg reports that the…

Nordic Mobile Marketer More Mobile Relations Acquires 12snap-Lokomobil - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 14 May 2008 04:24 AM PST

Nordic mobile marketing firm More Mobile Relations has acquired the 6-year old Swedish mobile marketing company 12snap-Lokomobil for an undisclosed sum. The company, founded by Norwegian operator Telenor, has been…

SK Telecom Calls Rumors Of Virgin Mobile-Helio Merger “Groundless” - 7 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 12 May 2008 03:46 AM PST

Rafat broke the news Thursday that MVNO’s Virgin Mobile and Helio were considering a merger, and despite the WSJ verifying the tie-up with their own sources, SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM)…

dotMobi Acquires Assets Of Shuttered Mowser Service - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 09 May 2008 04:50 AM PST

dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi suffix, has acquired the assets of Mowser, the mobile rendering service that got more attention for closing down than for being open in the…

Best Buy Pays $2.1 Billion For Half Of Britain’s Carphone Warehouse - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 08 May 2008 12:22 PM PST

U.S. electronics store Best Buy said today that it is paying $2.1 billion for half of Carphone Warehouse in order to enter the European consumer electronics market, Reuters reports. Carphone’s…

Virgin Mobile USA In Merger Talks With Helio; Other Options Still Being Considered - 11 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 08 May 2008 11:30 AM PST

Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM), the MVNO which just reported its Q1 earnings earlier this week, is in talks with the much smaller and troubled MVNO Helio, we have learned,…

Sprint-Clearwire: Sprint’s SVP Atish Gude: “We Know We Are The Pioneers” Of The Mobile Internet - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 07 May 2008 12:50 PM PST

After speaking to Clearwire’s Ben Wolff, I also interviewed Sprint’s (NYSE: S) Atish Gude, the SVP of Sprint’s Xohm mobile broadband operations, about the pending deal that would create a…

Sprint-Clearwire: Competitive Advantage—If All the Cooks Can Work Together - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 07 May 2008 07:51 AM PST

What is most important is that Sprint (NYSE: S) and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) don’t get bogged down with administrative headaches—the proverbial problem of having too many cooks in the kitchen.…

PlayPhone Will Merge With Pitch Entertainment To Get Global Reach - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 07 May 2008 04:00 AM PST

PlayPhone, a mobile content company based in San Jose, CA, plans to announce this morning that it is merging with London-based Pitch Entertainment Group to expand its coverage to more…

Microsoft-Yahoo: Links To All Of Our Coverage - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Sat 03 May 2008 10:54 PM PST

For quick access to our coverage on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) withdrawing its offer to purchase Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) on paidContent.org… -- BREAKING: Microsoft Withdraws Offer For Yahoo -- MSFT-YHOO: From…

Updated: Deutsche Telekom Looking To Buy Sprint? - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 03 May 2008 07:55 AM PST

Will Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel find a buyer to get it out of its troubles? So says Der Spiegel (via Reuters), the German magazine: Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), owner of…

Interactive TV Software Developer Zodiac Interactive Sells Mobile Content Search Engine Zodigo - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 30 Apr 2008 04:59 AM PST

Interactive television software developer Zodiac Interactive has sold its mobile content search engine Zodigo in a management buy-out led by Zodigo CEO Matt Johnston, who was also Zodiac’s former SVP…

Sony Buys Gracenote For $260 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 24 Apr 2008 02:02 PM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Corp of America has bought Gracenote, the media metadata and tech firm which has been around since 1998, for about $260 million and more based on contingencies.…

Apple Buys Microprocessor Chip Firm; Possible Use With iPhone and iPods - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Apr 2008 10:51 PM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has finally done something with its cash, although spending a tiny part of it, after much speculation of what it would do: it has bought a boutique…

Mobile Phonebook Firm Zyb Buys Danish Social Network Imity - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Apr 2008 11:17 AM PST

Update: Corrected: I got it wrong the first time...the other way around: Zyb bought Imity. Zyb, the mobile phonebook service founded in Denmark, has bought out by Danish mobile social…

Hispanic MVNO Movida Sold To APC Wireless - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 18 Apr 2008 01:52 PM PST

Hispanic MVNO Movida, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy late last month, has been bought out of it by mobile services provider APC Wireless. APC bought another local MVNO Liberty…

Microsoft Completes Acquisition Of Danger; Co-Founders Join Newly Created PMX Division - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 15 Apr 2008 06:27 AM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) announced today it has completed its acquisition of cell phone firm Danger. The company is being integrated into Microsoft’s newly created Premium Mobile Experiences (PMX) team, a…

Can Yarosa Entertainment Revitalize Imploding SMS-TV Sector? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 10 Apr 2008 04:07 AM PST

When Text-to-TV services began taking off three years ago, the sector looked like the path to easy money. A number of start-ups, including 2waytraffic and Yarosa Entertainment were making what…

Content, Apps Provider MobiVentures Buys E-mail Marketer PurePromoter For $7.8 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 08 Apr 2008 11:48 AM PST

Mobile content and apps creator MobiVentures is acquiring UK-based e-mail marketer PurePromoter for $7.8 million (3.9 million pounds). MobiVentures has secured $2 million (1.01 million pounds) in financing from Trafalgar…

Local Matters Acquires Local Mobile Search Firm mobilePeople - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 04 Apr 2008 01:46 AM PST

Media technology provider Local Matters is acquiring Danish local mobile search and advertising provider mobilePeople. The Denver, Colorado-based firm, which specializes in local search, will acquire all of the outstanding…

Seesmic Acquires Twitter Desktop Client Twhirl - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 03 Apr 2008 08:01 PM PST

Social video start-up Seesmic has acquired Twhirl, a desktop client that allows users to connect with text messaging social services like Twitter, Pownce and Jaiku sans browser. Seesmic will use…

AdStar Plans To Acquire Relevantis In All-Stock Deal, Expand Ad Services To Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 01 Apr 2008 10:58 PM PST

Online ad systems manager AdStar said it plans to acquire Relevantis in an all-stock deal to expand its service offerings into mobile. Additional details about the transaction’s terms weren’t disclosed.…

AdStar Acquisition Of Relevantis Designed To Expand Ad Services To Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 01 Apr 2008 06:20 AM PST

Online ad systems manager AdStar said it plans to acquire Relevantis in an all-stock deal to expand its service offerings into mobile. Additional details about the transaction’s terms weren’t disclosed.…